Blogging is hard. Wife it 40 weeks pregnant and is showing signs of "prelabor" super excited to be shipping a son. Haven't been playing much and definitely feel the game has passed me by in a lot of ways, but am ok with that. Let my membership lapse but now that Mers is making vids am interested in re-upping (lthough I don't see an increase in my paltry playing time.

Lotsa cool stuff to talk about, hard time narrowing it down. Hung out with rumnchess when he was in town a few weeks ago. He brought chamber of commerce weather and we had Cheeseburgers and beers under the bay bridge, good times. 

Any questions?

Work

Been super busy since my last post. Been online a fair bit because of long shows at work with some dead spots, but can't seem to find the energy to blog unless I am alone and focused. As Dodge and others can attest I am very good at LC Multi chat during these busy periods.  The investment banker show I did was better than in years past, mainly because the Stage manager was a cute girl. The producer caught me playing on Stars and I had to play it off like it was play $ lol. Usually people believe the "Its a video game" excuse, but she had a bf that played on Stars so she didn't buy it. The most interesting speaker at the show was some Bush administration guy that said the new Health Care legislation, if passed, is gonna make the industry more $ than ever. His message was essentially "don't worry, either way we'll keep getting rich". 

Fitness

Weighed in this morning and am down to 203 lbs (from 208.5 a week ago). I have only eaten out twice this new year, and one of them was last night at an excellent Mexican restaurant that is 2 blocks from my house. I had my first drink of the year too, if a Wine Margarita counts, which I am not sure it does. My wife and I agreed that a drink once and a while with dinner wouldn't really upset the original no drinking until birth pledge too much. The lightest I have been in this century is probably 200 even, I am excited to pass that mark soon.

Employment

Parenthood

Went with the wife to our first "Hypnobirthing" class tonight. It sounds pretty fruity, but the method seems pretty cool. It essentially helps the parents in the mental aspects of birthing, using hypnosis as a foundation. Its only been the first class but the instructor did a lot of stuff to boost the parents confidence in themselves. It was pointed out that when animals give birth, they do it in quite, dark, out of the way places whenever possible, yet we do the opposite and make it a medical circus. Right now we're gonna have a hospital birth but I wouldn't be surprised if that changed. I'll try and hash these ideas out more when I do some more research, but there is a lot of room for interesting discussion on this. For the first time I'm actually getting jazzed about the process, not just the result.

Fitness

Poker

60 games played @ $6.25 = $45 profit and a 12% ROI. 

I noticed all my opponents were rocking Bronze Stars proudly so I figures I would crush their hopes by turning on my Platinum Star status for all to see. Turns out I got a nice little 15 game heater out of the whole thing, so I guess it worked. I have collected 2 VPPs towards my 3000 needed for the $150 redeposit bonus, luckily I have 3 months and will likely be moving up in time to get it. 

Fitness

I'm down to 205.6 lbs already, which is good. I rode my bike 12 miles today and mixed in a few hills, man am I out of shape! The route was very familiar to me and I haven't been worked so hard by it in a while, which I guess is good. So here are the things that work for me when I am trying to lose weight.

- Eat whole foods, stay away from things that come in packages, minimize refined flours and grains.